Chapter 436 Sister-in-law, you don’t want your daughter to be bullied, right?
At night, the bright moonlight shines on the streets, reflecting the cold metallic light of the swords and shields in the hands of the patrolling soldiers and the armor on their bodies, making the dead silent city of Troy filled with an oppressive feeling as if a storm is about to come.
And a figure took advantage of the cover of night and came to the most heavily guarded Trojan Palace.
"Wow, you acted pretty quickly. You took control of the situation so easily. It seems that your control over the army is indeed impeccable."
Hearing the voice outside the door, which was not sure whether it was a teasing or a compliment, Hector, who was sitting in the hall waiting, looked a little dark, and snorted coldly:
"Thanks to you, I have to take some coercive actions against my family."
Lorne walked in, looked around, and smiled indifferently.
"Okay, there's not even a trace of blood or damage here, so don't make it sound like you've slaughtered all your family. I guess the old king gave in voluntarily, right? He values his life, but he's not stupid. Troy can lose anyone, but it can't lose a defender like you, so I can only hand over the power to you and let you do whatever you want."
Hector nodded and looked helplessly at the visiting earthly shepherd:
"You are really as wise as the legend says. So, what do you need Troy to do? Open the gate and surrender immediately, and hand over my brother and sister-in-law?"
Here, Hector called the Queen of Mycenae, who was abducted by his younger brother Paris, "sister-in-law", which clearly showed his intention of protecting her.
Obviously, compared to that scumbag brother, he still has some humanity.
At this moment, Luo En shook his head and said solemnly:
"No! Not only do you not have to surrender, you must also step up your preparations for war!"
"Is it because - the war of gods is coming?"
Hearing Hector's groaning, Loen looked at the Trojan general with a little surprise:
"You actually guessed it."
"I'm not stupid either."
Hector replied in a deep voice, his brown eyes becoming darker.
"It has been almost three hundred years since the rebellion in Olympus. Since everything is not over yet, what is coming will eventually come."
Then he paused, his expression a little bitter.
"It's just that I didn't expect Troy to be involved first."
"There's nothing we can do. The gods have disappeared, and there are only a few heroes with divine blood left that His Majesty would care about."
Loen spread his hands and looked mockingly at the holy Mount Olympus among the stars.
Hector heard the hidden meaning and his expression changed slightly.
"You mean, He wants us all to die in this war?"
"What else? You don't really think that the God King is so idle that he wants to help you resist the attack of the Greek coalition forces?"
Lorne asked calmly, then revealed the truth with a sneer.
"To be honest, Troy and Mycenae are just the fuse that ignites the powder keg. Once enough Greek heroes and elite soldiers gather here, it will blow you up into the sky, severing the bloodline of the gods on earth and threatening Olympus in the slightest. This is the real purpose of His Majesty the God King!"
This is indeed the case. In the end, there was no real winner in the Trojan War.
Not only did the elite soldiers and divine blood heroes in both camps suffer heavy casualties, but the strength of each city-state also declined sharply after the war, and none of them had a good ending.
Troy was destroyed by war, Mycenae fell apart, and Sparta declined in its war...
On the contrary, Athens, which had been paddling behind the scenes throughout, rose after the war and became the biggest beneficiary of the war.
But Hector still had some doubts about what Loen said:
"We are just mortals. Even if we have divine blood flowing in our veins, why would that God King be so eager to kill us all?"
"It is His consistent principle to rather kill the wrong person than let him go."
“Even if Troy and Mycenae are gone, there are still hundreds and thousands of heroes with divine blood in this world. Can He kill them all?”
"So, have you ever heard of the [Magic Box]?"
Luo En smiled playfully and spoke softly.
"The owner of this thing is currently in the Mycenae military camp. If enough blood and souls are sacrificed, guess what will happen?"
“Hiss~~!”
Hector gasped, his expression becoming extremely ugly.
How could he not know about the famous Pandora's Box?
If this thing is activated, not only the God-Blood heroes scattered across various city-states, I'm afraid the entire human race will be extinct!
"So, we are all sacrifices to open the magic box?"
"To that Majesty, this is probably your only value."
Lorne smiled, his eyes sneerful.
His god-like father has exactly this problem. He clearly wants to eat people, but he always wants to maintain a false decency and doesn't want to dirty his hands.
At this moment, Hector realized the real crisis and no longer hesitated. He respectfully confronted the earthly shepherd:
"I have sent troops to seal off the damaged Great Temple and have also taken control of the priests originally stationed there. What are you going to do next?"
"Nothing unusual in the city?"
"No! Ever since the patron saint statue was destroyed, the aura hanging over Troy has disappeared, and nothing else has happened."
"That's good."
Lorne nodded, then spoke seriously.
"Now that the nail that Zeus drove into Troy has been removed, I hope you can build an altar to worship the gods of Mount Ares on the original site as soon as possible. The sooner the better! Because I will soon have to deal with the hidden danger in the Mycenaean camp."
"Pandora?"
"Well, once we get rid of this witch of disaster, the news of my return and the Argonauts' return will not be kept secret for too long. By then, His Majesty the God King will probably be unable to sit still, so you need to prepare in advance."
Hector was startled when he heard this, and nodded seriously.
Since you have chosen to betray the "divine grace" of His Majesty the God King, you can only follow this Shepherd to the end.
Having gotten the result he wanted, Loen simply waved his hand.
"Okay, I've said everything I need to say. If there's nothing else, I'll have to rush back to the camp to deal with another problem."
"Wait a minute!"
At this time, Cassandra walked in from outside the door, hurriedly called out to Lorne, and said in a deep voice while pulling a charming blonde woman.
"We'll go back with you!"
Loen glanced at the woman's familiar facial features, thoughtfully.
"You are... Helen's sister?"
"Well, as you can see, I am still alive as a sinner."
The beautiful woman smiled bitterly and nodded, and then a look of enlightenment and calmness appeared on her face.
"Although I could also blame it all on the gods' tricks like that unworthy lover, I have to take responsibility for what I have done. So, I beg you to take me back to the Greek camp and hand me over to my husband Agamemnon, so that this meaningless war can come to an end."
Lorne looked at his sister-in-law, who seemed ready to risk her life to lobby for Troy, and Cassandra, who was going to walk hand in hand with her, with a subtle look in his eyes.
In fact, Clytemnestra was not a fickle woman.
In the original trajectory of fate, Agamemnon was going to lead his troops to attack Troy, and was worried that his wife, who lived alone, would cheat on him, so before leaving he arranged for a singer to monitor his wife day and night to ensure that she would not be tempted.
During this period, Agamemnon's other brother Aegisthus fell in love with his sister-in-law and his brother Agamemnon's throne, and tried to seduce Clytemnestra several times, but Clytemnestra refused.
But later, Aegisthus took the singer who was in charge of monitoring to a deserted island and buried him in the belly of a wild beast, and told his sister-in-law that Agamemnon had sacrificed his daughter to win the war. Clytemnestra was furious and obeyed Aegisthus. When her husband Agamemnon returned home victoriously and favored a captured Trojan princess, she and Aegisthus killed her husband and daughter together to avenge her daughter.
And the unfortunate Trojan princess also died in the murder because of Clytemnestra's anger.
Yes, it was Cassandra herself...
The trajectory of this fate is so crooked.
However, thinking that Penthesilea, who should have died at the hands of Achilles, was now hanging out with the effeminate Achilles (Diana), inseparable from her all day long, and even had a master-disciple relationship with her, Loen felt relieved.
Let it be crooked, no matter how much trouble it causes, it is still better than the original ending of everything being ruined.
Luo En shook his head to dispel the chaotic thoughts in his mind, but he did not agree to let his sister-in-law go back and fall into the trap:
"Agamemnon is not as innocent as you think. As soon as you were abducted, he ran to Sparta to propose marriage, wanting to take your sister Helen and the powerful Spartan army into his arms. Moreover, your husband obeyed the orders of the God King. Under the instruction of Zeus, he expanded the territory of Mycenae. I'm afraid he had already set his sights on Troy at that time, and all he needed was a reason to take action. So, did Agamemnon really know nothing about your elopement with Paris?"
The Queen of Mycenae opposite heard this and her expression gradually became uncertain.
No wonder her husband, who had always kept a close eye on her, had asked her to receive Paris and the others during the days when the Trojan fleet came to visit.
No wonder her husband was away so often during those days, leaving her and Paris alone;
No wonder he was able to escape safely from the heavily guarded Mycenae Palace with a large amount of gold, silver and treasures and some burdensome maids...
Considering all the signs, her husband was probably not the mastermind, but he was half an insider and had certainly been fanning the flames behind the scenes.
But after a long silence, the sister-in-law sighed:
"Anyway, I was at fault first..."
"Oh, I forgot to tell you: Agamemnon was defeated a few days ago, and when he returned, he threw your daughter onto the altar, saying that it was a sacrifice to the gods in exchange for victory for Greece. If Helen hadn't arrived in time and agreed to let other city-states replace Mycenae, I'm afraid your daughter's ashes would be cold by now. Your Majesty, you don't want your daughter to continue to be bullied after you die, right?"
As Luo Enyouyou added this attack, the sister-in-law, who originally looked like she had lost all hope in life, suddenly became furious, like a mother wolf protecting her cubs.
"Agamemnon, you beast! What does our affair have to do with my daughter? Wait, I will make him pay the price!"
Looking at his sister-in-law who was full of energy and seemed to want to go back and kill the scumbag immediately, Loen couldn't help but reveal a sinister smile on his face.
He didn't care whether Agamemnon was dead or alive. This idiot probably still fantasized that after he dealt with Troy, he could dominate the Greek states with the support of Zeus.
Little did they know that in the plan of His Majesty the God King, there was no intention to fulfill the promise.
Anyway, these are consumables that will be thrown away after use, so why not make more use of them and give my sister-in-law more motivation to survive.
"What if" Agamemnon met with misfortune and Sparta, which had a marriage relationship with Mycenae, intervened strongly and took the opportunity to gather its military strength, allowing the Mycenaeans and their vassal troops to continue to shine for the truly great cause.
Seeing that her plan was not adopted, Cassandra could not help but question:
"But the coalition forces now have an absolute advantage. Are they really willing to give up their prejudices and join forces with us?"
"So, I asked you to open a door at the critical moment..."
Lorne spoke leisurely, his tone meaningful.
At this moment, Cassandra suddenly realized and finally understood the other party's intention. She couldn't help but look at the shepherd with admiration and even piety.
It has to be said that this kind of pure worship really benefited Loen.
But since he had already wasted quite a bit of time in Troy, he could only regretfully collect his thoughts and bid farewell to the three people in the palace.
"Remember my words, immediately build an altar to worship the gods of the War God Mountain, and wait for my order!"
The three of them nodded respectfully and watched the god walk into the thick night.
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After slipping out of Troy with ease, Loen looked at the Greek military camp gathered outside the city with shining eyes.
Then, it’s time to meet the Witch of Disaster.
Just as Loen was about to sneak into the Mycenaean camp to find out what was going on, his eyes suddenly narrowed, and he immediately raised his right hand and grabbed a small forest not far away that was rustling in the breeze:
"Who? Get out!"
“Sizzle!”
Suddenly, the thick night in the woods was torn apart, and a furtive figure was dragged out in a panic.
Sensing the familiar pressure rising around him, the figure on the sand hurriedly raised his hands and shouted:
"No, no, don't do it, it's me!"
"Hermes?"
Luo En was stunned when he saw that face full of stealth.
"You're back?"
"If I hadn't been so smart, I would have almost never made it back!"
Hermes snorted unhappily, with a strong resentment emanating from the lines.
With the help of the moonlight, Loen discovered that Hermes, who used to pay great attention to his appearance, was now dressed in tattered clothes, and his body was covered with shocking wounds and freshly solidified blood scabs.
"Did you meet Zeus?"
Loen's face changed, and he immediately jumped back nimbly to distance himself from Hermes.
Hermes' face darkened when he saw this:
"How can I survive if I meet him? There are three hundred-armed giants squatting in the Temple of Destiny! And what's the point of running so far?"
"Ahem, the scenery at the beach is nice. I'm glad you're back. Let's go in and talk slowly."
Lorne coughed guiltily, then put on a warm smile and pulled Hermes into the heavily guarded Spartan coach's tent.
(End of this chapter)
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